Box and tub fastener



(No Model.)

B. s. WILLARD; BOX AND TUB FASTENER.

No. 303,775. Patented Aug. 19, 1884.

INVBNTOR.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT RODNEY S. W'ILLARD, OF SVVANTON, VERMONT.

iiPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,775, dated August 19, 1884.

Application filed December S16, 1883. (No model.)

ing is a full, clear, and exact description of the invent-ion, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the ac-' eompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a box provided with my improved fastener. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the same, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the fastener detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation'to that class of fasteners for boxes, tubs, barrels, or similar packing. vessels, formed by a piece of wire provided withpoints at its ends adapted to be driven into the parts of the vessel to be seen red together; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a fastener composed of a piece of wire forming eyes at its ends, through which eyes nails or tacks pass, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the top, and B the side, of a box, which are secured together by the fastener O.

In fasteners of this kind there have been sevoral drawbacks: First, in the fasteners made out of one piece of wirehaving its ends sharpened, adapting them to be driven into the parts to be secured together, the diflicult-y has been that where the wood is hard the points have been apt to bond, as the wire necessarily must be soft for the purpose of bending it over the edges of the parts to be connected; and, secondly, in the fasteners consisting of a strip of sheet metal having nails or tacks passing through its ends, there has been the drawback that in handling the packages the hands of the persons handling them have often been soverely out or scratched by the sharp edges of the metal strips. To avoid this 1 construct the fastener of a piece of wire, D, bent to form eyes E at both ends, through which eyes tacks or nails F are inserted, the eyes clamping the tacks, so that they will remain in the eyes ready for use when packed for shipment; and it will be seen that the round sides of the wire cannot injure the hands of persons handling the package secured by the fasteners, and that the nails or tacks may be of any hardness desired, adapting them to be driven into the hardest wood.

As before stated, I am aware that fasteners have been made consisting of a strip of sheet metal having the nails or tacks passing through its ends; and, also, that fasteners have been made consisting of a piece of wire having its ends sharpened, adapting them to be driven into the parts to be secured together, and forming eyes at its ends, through which tacks may be driven, assisting the sharpened ends in holding the fastening in place, and I therefore do not wish to claim these constructions, broadly; but

\Vhat I claim as a new and tion isr The combination of a piece of wire having its ends bent to form eyes with two nails or tacks inserted and held in the said eyes, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto at'fixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RODNEY S.

useful inven- WILLARD.

Witnesses:

DANIEL G. FURMAN,

A. J. FERnIs. 

